Trunk-lock



O. A. TAYLOR.

TRUNK 1.001;.

Patented Nov. 29,- 1887.

1 WITNESSES:

' ATTORNEY- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. TAYLOR, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

TRUNK-LOCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 373,863, dated November 29, 1887.

Application filed February 19, 1887. Serial No. 228,163. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern.- 1

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. TAYLOR,

of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Trunk-Locks, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide such new and useful improvements in trunklocks as to prevent the withdrawal of the hasp vertically, laterally, or outwardly, and in which the construction of the hasp is such as to greatly strengthen it, to make it serve the double capacity of hasp and lift, and, when unlocked, automatically oscillate outward from engagement with the lower part of the lock, substantially as hereinafter described, and as illustrated in the drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section taken on line a; 00, Fig. 1. Fig. 4. shows a perspective view of the hasp, and Fig. 5shows a modification of my invention.

Reference being had to the drawings, A rep resents a body-plate, theinner surface or'back of which is recessed, so as to permit a lock, B, to be inserted therein, the bolt 1) of which has a vertical reciprocation, and which is operated by suitable key inserted in the keyhole a. This plate A, immediately above the lock, is provided with a seat, 0, the depth of which corresponds to the thickness of the end d of hasp D, and the lateral dimensions of which are the same. The end (1 of hasp D is provided withalateral opening therein, preferably rectangular in cross-section, through which, when said hasp is oscillated down into said seat 0, the lug E,projecting outwardly and centrally from the bottom of said seat, passes. When the end of the hasp is pushedinto seat 0 and it is desired to lock the trunk, the lock B is operated so as to shoot its bolt b up into a suitable recess in the adjacent surface of the end (1 of the hasp, and thus prevent its withdrawal vertically, laterally, or outwardly.

The operation of the devices above explained would be just as good as applied to any other form of top plate and hasp as to that which I am about to describe. Iprefer to use them conjointly, however. The body of the hasp D, from which end 01 extends, is preferably rectangular, or such shape that its upper part may be at right angles to the perpendicular arrangement of the top plate, 0, and so that it forms a journal for said hasp. The back of said plate C is suitably recessed to provide bearings g for thejournal of the hasp and for the placing of a flat spring, G, therein, which presses outward against a lug, f, pro- ()0 jecting downward and inward from about the center of said journal and about the angle shown, and causes the hasp, when the bolt 12 is withdrawn, to automatically oscillate outward to about the position shown in Fig. 2.

If desired, lug f may be dispensed with and the adjacent surface of the journal of the said hasp fiattenedto a plane parallel to the angle of projection of lug f, and against which spring G would press in substantially the same manner as against the aforesaid lug.

The means for automatically oscillating hasp D outward can be dispensed with. I prefer their use, however.

It is evident that when the trunk is unlocked 7 and the hasp automatically oscillates outward it could be graspedand made to serve as a lift for the lid as well. In Fig. 5 I have constructed the hasp with this end especially in view, and have made it elliptirahwith the cen- 8 tral opening large enough for the insertion of three or four fingers.

What I claim as new is- 1. In a trunk-lock, the combination, with plate A, having a seat, 0, and lock B therein, of plate C, hasp D, having an unbroken rectangular shape, lugf, projecting from the journal thereof, and spring G, as described.

2. In a trunk-lock, the combination, with plate A, having a seat, a, therein, lug E, pro- 0 jecting from the bottom of said seat, and lock B, of plate 0 and hasp D, having the projecting end d, provided with transverse opening 6, as set forth.

CHARLES A. TAYLOR.

Witnesses:

FRANK D. THOMASON, J NO. W. SIoKELs. 

